Author: Chloe Rhodes
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
Black Cats and Evil Eyes
Author: Chloe Rhodes
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
The Black Cat
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 658593413X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.
Publisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 658593413X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.
One for Sorrow
Author: Chloe Rhodes
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 184317779X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This charming book is filled with sayings, legends and proverbs derived from the oral history of the countryside and unveils how they came about, what they mean, and how they came to be such a big part of the language we use today.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 184317779X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This charming book is filled with sayings, legends and proverbs derived from the oral history of the countryside and unveils how they came about, what they mean, and how they came to be such a big part of the language we use today.
Black Cats Tell All
Author: Layla Morgan Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998059198
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Anthology of stories about and photographs of black cats.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998059198
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Anthology of stories about and photographs of black cats.
Black Cats & Four-leaf Clovers
Author: Harry Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322762807
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322762807
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Superstition
Author: Sally Coulthard
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
ISBN: 9781787133631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Superstitions have captured our imaginations for centuries but we are often unaware of where they came from and why. In her new book Superstition, Sally Coulthard explores the history and background of 50 of these fascinating cultural behaviours, how they affected our everyday, and how many of these beliefs still permeate modern life. From opening umbrellas indoors to not putting new shoes on the table, Sally gets under the skin of these peculiar pastimes and reveals how they started and why they became so popular.
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
ISBN: 9781787133631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Superstitions have captured our imaginations for centuries but we are often unaware of where they came from and why. In her new book Superstition, Sally Coulthard explores the history and background of 50 of these fascinating cultural behaviours, how they affected our everyday, and how many of these beliefs still permeate modern life. From opening umbrellas indoors to not putting new shoes on the table, Sally gets under the skin of these peculiar pastimes and reveals how they started and why they became so popular.
Cat's Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307797961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307797961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.
The Devil's Cat
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786010059
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cats have overrun the town and evil seems to waft in from the swamps with thehot, fetid breeze. Soon Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam are battling the forces ofdarkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786010059
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cats have overrun the town and evil seems to waft in from the swamps with thehot, fetid breeze. Soon Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam are battling the forces ofdarkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator.
Black Cat, White Cat
Author: Silvia Borando
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763681067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A black cat who only ever goes out during the day and a white cat who only goes out at night meet in the middle and start a beautiful relationship together.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763681067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A black cat who only ever goes out during the day and a white cat who only goes out at night meet in the middle and start a beautiful relationship together.
Cat's Cradle
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 160183537X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No one knew where she had come from. A scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn’t solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn’t comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their intimate hideaways, their swimming holes—and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl’s pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow . . .
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 160183537X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No one knew where she had come from. A scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn’t solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn’t comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their intimate hideaways, their swimming holes—and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl’s pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow . . .